May 9-11, 2014Losel Shedrup Ling of Knoxville (www.lslk.org)
5415-F Kingston Pike in the Bearden area of Knoxville(Click HERE for directions)

Friday, May 9
• 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Saturday, May 10
• 9:00 am – 11:00 am
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Sunday, May 11
• 9:00 am – 11:00 am

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White Tara is a mother figure, seated in the postureof the vajra (thunderbolt) above a white moon discand an open lotus.

White Tara’s special function is to promote long life,both for the practitioner and for others. Ultimately,she is the very nature of the dharmakaya, and herpractice is a means for attaining liberation.________________________________________

Khenpo Samdup was born in Kham, in the Nangchen region of Eastern Tibet, received the vows of Refuge from Garchen Rinpoche when he was seven years old, and became ordained as a monk at the age of twelve. While traveling extensively with his kind root lama, Garchen Rinpoche, to Amdo, he met another extraordinary and highly realized lama, the Revered Dzogchen master Khenpo Munsel, from whom he received direct pointing out instructions on the nature of mind.

Later, he traveled on foot for a month to the monastery of master Khenpo Jigme Puntsok in Amdo, in order to devote himself to study, contemplation, and meditation. While there for four years, he received many pith instructions, empowerments and teachings from Khenpo Jigme Puntsok and received teachings on almost all of the Twelve Great Scriptures from his main student Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro.

He also studied at Dzogsar Shedra for four years and then went to Kagyu College, where he received a graduate degree and taught for five years.

Khenpo Samdup learned that the main objective of Buddhism is to reach the state of liberation and complete omniscience and that the path that accomplishes that objective is the conduct of love and compassion, and bodhicitta, together with the view of emptiness and karmic interdependence.

Click the image above forKhenpo Samdup’s"Learning Buddhism"at Garchen Buddhist Institute.This new book is an excellent introduction to Tibetan Buddhist teachings!

Suggested Reading:

Click the image for H.E. Bokar Rinpoche's "Tara The Feminine Divine"at Amazon.This book is a great introduction to several of the 10am practices we do at LSLK every Sunday morning. Please check it out!

Suggested Reading:

Click the image for H.H. The Dalai Lama's "From Here to Enlightenment" (2013) at Amazon.This introduction to Tsongkhapa’s The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment is also a great introduction to the 11am practice we do at LSLK every Sunday morning. Please check it out!

Suggested Reading:Suggested Reading:

Click HERE to see "Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism" by Reginald Ray atBarnes & Noble

Suggested Reading:

Click the image above to see Atisha's "Lamp For The Path To Enlightenment" with commentary by Geshe Sonam Rinchen (1997) at Amazon.Review: "Geshe Sonam Rinchen's lucid and engaging commentary draws out Atisha's meaning for today's practitioners with warmth and wit, bringing the light of this age-old wisdom into the modern world."—Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies

Suggested Reading:

Click the image above to see Ayya Khema's "Be an Island: The Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace" at Amazon